The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-04-12
or GENERAL INTEREST.

WI have their theater in New York.
The City Council ut Blackshear.
! Ga. has fixed the price of liquor
license ut $4,000. No saloon keeper
has settled there as Chicago
Tribune.
A New York court recently decided
that where the foreman of cloak fac
tory. backed by two lady assistants. de-
clare> a cloak to- be fit, the customer
has nothing to say in the matter.
A new charitable organization in
New York Il called The Good AmerI-
can DiakOneSSen, an adaptation from
the German. Its purpose is to train
women to become intelligent nurses OF
the sick poor.
The Southern Practitioner SAYS that
the grlatine capsules used in the adj
mini>tr.tion OF unpleasant medicines
are in>oluble In alcohol. For this
reason it is useless go give medicine ia
this form TO inebridtcS or for some days
after the excessive use of spirits.
New York City has an odd char
acter who delights in foo.ing people by
posing as a wax figure. He is over
forty-iive years old. dresses well, and is
often taken for Il wax figure, u he sits
with an umbrella or cane across his lap
and Il programme in front of him.
The superintendent of the musee thinks
of putting him in the catalogue. -N. \.
TTib1tHe.
Boston people will find it difficult
to believe that the following advertise
ment appeared in the EUeHjag Post. of
Boston. i'm 1742: Ito be sold by the
RFinter of this Paper, the very best
Negro Woman in this Town, who has
had the SMALLPOX and the Measles; is
"a hearty as Horse. "a brisk Is Bird,
and will work like Il Beaver. August
%. 1742'
The Old-faShioned country clergy
of England who had glebc lands be-
lieved in rotation of crops. Many
years ago an Archdeacon visited one
of these clergymen and was Mortified
to find that the churchyard was sown
with barley. Intending to rebuke this
dissertation. he said in severe tone:
This must not occur again 20,
dear. nor replied the bucolic rector:
lit will be turnips next year. ~. Y.
Tribune.
In the New Britain groupof islands
in the Pacific man is forbidden under
any circumstances to speak to his
mOther-in-law, and he must even avoid
herif possible. He must walk miles
out of his way so as not to cross her
path, and if he meet her unawares he
must hide his face. The most sacred
oath in vogue among the natives was
when man invoked upon himself. for
breach of sacred pledge, the terrible
fate of having to shake hands with his
mOther-in-law.
There were but few soldiers in the
war;" said Captain Campbell. 'who
were not card-playerS. and they nearly
all liked To own deck, but they had
dread of being killed with a deck on
their person. Whenever we heard the
cannOns begin to boom and the guns of
the picket-men begin. to clatter, we
knew that a battle was coming, and you
would see men by the hundreds draw
ING their cards from their pockets and
throwing them along the road. "-Ln-
diaRdpOiS journal.
"A touching incident occurred on
the day preceding Mr.. David A. Was
SON ; death. The patient old man had
been growing weaker and weaker, the
vigorous constitution he inherited from
sturdy ancestors with difficulty relax
ing its tenacious grasp upon life even
after years of Illness, and with n sigh
of ineffable WEAKNESS he said to his
wife: Have you seen my good friend
Death anywhere about hereP Ii you
see him. tell him he will be very well
come" The, next day his ''good
friend came.-BoStOH Letter 10 Proei-
denCe Journal.
The Bismarck Tribune describes
the picturesque appearance of train
that recently reached there after n tus-
sic with a blizzard. 1.-The most inter-
esting sight of ALL" it says, twas the
uninterrupted snow-plow, which came
Just ahead of the train. The pillow was
loaded with several tons OF pure white
material. and the engine was gigantic
moving icicle of curious shapes and ex-
quisite beauty. The drive wheels, the
boiler, the bell and the smokestack
were handsomely slated with ice and
snow. and the cab was perfect little
crystal palace
in answer to the question; "What
speed is attained by the fastest steamer
in the !world?l' the New York Sun
replies: ''The ordinary good torPedn-
boats in foreign naties make about
twenty-five miles an hour over the
measured mile. There are q few, in